Security Advisory

CVE-2024-26691

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-04-03 14:54:52
Last updated 2026-05-11 20:02:20
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix circular locking dependency The rule inside kvm enforces that the vcpu->mutex is taken *inside* kvm->lock. The rule is violated by the pkvm_create_hyp_vm() which acquires the kvm->lock while already holding the vcpu->mutex lock from kvm_vcpu_ioctl(). Avoid the circular locking dependency altogether by protecting the hyp vm handle with the config_lock, much like we already do for other forms of VM-scoped data.